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Memphis Year Book Industrial League Edition 




Facts -J2^ Memphis 

By I. F. PETERS, Industrial Commissioner 

Write him for any furtlier information desired 



Clearing-House 
Receipts 

1!)01,$1.')4,4SL>,!)35.75 

1902, 17!), 19! 1, 939. 22 

1903, 214,009,558.12 

1904, 260,664,326.04 

1905, 273,422,557.40 

1906, 247,535,055.00 

1907, 248,878,040.43 

Postoffice Receipts 



1901, 
1902, 
1903, 
1!)04, 
1905, 
li)06, 
1!)()7, 



$247,292.94 
2!)4,052.57 
342,120.71 
393,617.24 
437.384.50 
482,677.18 
539,252.53 




Real Estate 
Transfers 

1!)02, $ 4,25!),2!)().00 

1903, 6,174,040.00 

1904, 7,125,650.00 

1905, 10,908,790.00 

1906, 11,261,360.00 

1907, 9,129,510.00 

Building 
Improvements 

(CITY AND SUBURBS) 

1902, $2,253,000.00 
3,265,235.00 
4,594,157.69 
r).057.604.30 
0,520,149.00 
7,432,071.00 



1903, 
1904, 
1905. 
190(i, 
1907, 



Population 



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Memphis has au up-to-date electric streetcar ser- 
vice — over 100 miles. 

Memphis has the fastest trotting track iu the world 

The Memphis railroad bridge is the fourth largest 
in the world ; bridge and approaches two miles. 

Memphis is the largest hardwood j)roducnng lum- 
ber nuirket in the world ; handles annually over 
five hundred million feet. 

Is the largest inland cotton market in the world ; 
annual receipts about (me million bales. 

Produces more cottonseed products than any city 
in the world ; has ten mills, three refineries. 

Ha.s the largest artesian water system in the 
world. 

Has one hundred anil forty chui-ches. 

Hous«s built in Memphis and Suburbs Jan> lA ^^O 
(St., 1900, to Jan. ist., 1907 i»*,«+«»V 



Has a death rate of 9.26 per thousand white popu- 
lation. Compare this with any other city of 
same population. 

Sixty-five schools, colleges and seminaries. iSix 
Imsiness colleges, two medical colleges, nine 
hospitals, three public libraries. 

Five theaters and two jjark theaters. 

Is the home port of eighty-four steamboats. 

Has two hundred and fifty miles of turnpike. 

One thousand acres iu public parks. 

Two hundred and thirty-five miles of sewers. 

Has twenty-seven banks and trust companies. 
Ca])itii!, (Mght niillion dollars; deposits thirty 
niilliiiii dollars, 



Houses built in "emphl"* and Suburbs Jan. O Rnf) 
Ist. , '907 to Jan. 1st., 1908 ^,»#UV/ 



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MEMPHIS As A Manufacturing CENTER 

By F. K. SPICER 



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Centuries ago when Hernando DeSoto first saw the pali- 
sades and heaving water of the mighty Mississippi from 
tlie bluflfs on wliicli Memphis now stands, little did the 
great Spanish adventurer and explorer think that in the 
years to come a large city would rear itself upon the spot 
where he then stood exulting in the glory of his magnifi- 
cent discovery. 

Later in the history of the great valley came three men 
who did see the possibilities of Memphis, and these men's 
names are dear to us because of the fact that they saw 
through the future the boundless possibilities of this city. 
These men were wise enough to plan for the future, and 
their ideas have crystalized into the facts they saw in the 
dim future: their dreams have been realized. 

Since those days Memphis has grown. It is now a city 
favored with natural resources and the even greater facili- 
ties of man's shrewd inventions. Possibly there is not a 
city in the United States so favored. 

But what does the future promise for Memphis? Even 
more than the pioneers could have ever dreamed. No doubt 
it never entered their minds that Theodore Roosevelt would 
call for "Uncle Samuel" and its people to dredge out a 
fourteen-foot channel from the Oreat Lakes to the Gulf 
and build the Panama canal, which great undertakings, 
when completed, will give Memphis an outlet to the 
world and advantages not possessed by many larger cities. 
Memphis will then be a seaport town and an inland town. 
Memphis is in the hardwood section of the United States, 
and is the largest hardwood market in the world. The 
forests still stand and the supply of timber is inexhaustible 
Wherever the forests are cleared the land is fertile and 

cotton is grown. , • • i' 

Eastern capitalists and manufacturers are beginning to 
see the signs of the time: they are realizins the possibili- 
ties of Memphis as a manufacturing and distributing cen- 
ter and thev are coining. The Industrial League receives 
thousands of letters of inquiry every year from manufac- 
turers in the East, and the result is there has been for the 
past five years many factories established m Memphis. 

Memphis is now destined to become a great center for 
textile plants. The textile men have surveyed the HeW «"'} 
have investigated, and the information has gone forth that 
labor conditions here are no longer prohibitive; that with 
this objection out of the way Memphis is now the logical 
textile citv of the South. _ „ , ^ ^, 

The chief advantage which Memphis affords to the manu- 
facturer is its location. First of all, it is the logical dis- 
tributing point for the great Southern, Southeastern and 
Southwestern territory, and with rail and river shipping 
facilities, railroad and river rates to points of shipment 
and from points where the crude material is obtained that 
are not prohibitive, there is no longer any reason why 
Memphis should not get the factories from other cities far 
removed from the center of distribution. 

The completion of the Panama canal will no doubt tiir- 
ther extend the trade territory, and if the dream of Calhoun 
and Clay, "Fourteen Feet Through the Valley,' is realized, 
our boats will find harbors in all great Eastern cities. In 
other words, the revival of river traffic will mean more for 
Memphis, Chicago, St. Louis and New Orleans than any 
other cities in the land. . . . „ j 

Located in the center of the Mississippi valley and sur- 
rounded by great forests of hardwood, and also surrounded 
by two great deltas containing the richest farming lands m 
the world, producing the greater part of the high-grade 
lon<T-staple cotton raised in the United States, why should 
not" Memphis hold out inducements to the manufacturers 
of all kinds of wooden articles of commerce and all kinds 
of cotton goods? And as Memphis is in direct touch with 
some of the wealthiest coal fields and mining districts of 
the country, being supplied with iron and steel from fehet- 
field and Birmingham, and Pittsburg by water, why should 



not this city become a great center for the manufacture 
of all kinds of machinery and iron factory products? 

Kentucky lies directly north of Memphis, and the greater 
part of the coal furnished the South by this state moves 
through Memphis. A large amount of coal is also supplied 
the city from Alabama and Tennessee. 

In addition to the Mississippi River and many lines ot 
railroads running in every direction, Memphis has two belt 
lines connecting ideal factory locations with the river and 
all the railroads. These belt lines are thirty-five miles long, 
and a factory located on either of them would insure quick 
transportation to every shipping point in the world. 

The only bridge south of Cairo on the Mississippi River 
is located at Memphis. It connects Tennessee and Ar- 
kansas, and is sixty feet above high water, thus enabling 
steam boats to operate during all stages of the river. 

At present the steamboats of Memphis ply the waters 
to Cairo St Louis, Louisville and Cincinnati during the 
hi<rh stage of the river, on the north, and during the en- 
tire yea? to Greenville, Vicksburg, Natchez, Baton Rouge, 
New "Orleans and all way landings on the South. .At New 
Orleans the boats have connections with steamship to all 
parts of the world. In fact, Memphis is the head of all- 
year river navigation on the Mississippi. 

Labor conditions in Memphis should be another induce- 
ment. The employers and employes know httle of strikes 
here. There is plenty of negro labor at hand plenty of 
white semi-skilkd labor and a large amount of skilled labor. 
The workmen can obtain cheap cottages and the necessi- 
ties of life in the factory district and the cost of hving 
to them is no higher than in other cities. 

The development ot the mineral resources of Tennessee, 
Kentucky, Arkansas, Oklahoma and the great central West 
will be "a surprise to the world, especially the st^te of 
Arkansas, whose wealth in natural resources up to this 
time has not been considered and is yet to be recognized 
by the world. It is said of Arkansas that the state pro- 
duces everything from meteors to diamonds and granite 
to ijeiirls. ■ And" all this vast mineral territory is m easy 
reach of Memphis. . 

When tlie rich mineral fields of our sister states aie 
dcveloiicd it will be realized that there must be some place 
to nuu.ufacture and distribute, and that place will be Mem - 
„hi^ The sen-regation of scrap iron at Memphis by the 
railroads will assist greatly in the manufacture of com 

"'buT the manufacturers want other things. They want to 
live in a city that has other advantages, such as good 
schools; they' want to live in a healthy city, they want^to 
live in a beautiful city. Then let them come to Memphis 
The citv is located on bluffs forty-five feet above high 
water The climate is mild and agreeable and the death 
rate, as shown by the board ot health, wil pi-ove to the 
world that there is not a healthier city in the United 
States than Memphis. The city is never affected by e-x- 
trerae heat or extreme cold; in fact the climate is so mild 
that the contractors build houses throughout the entire 

^^Memphis has a natural surface drainage and two hundred 
and thirty-five miles ot automatic flush tank sewers. 

The citv is equipped with one of the finest systems of 
public schools in the South, together with business and 

"Thf citfir-wells with depth of from 250 to 400 feet, 
which furnish an unlimited supply of absolutely pure 
artesian water. , j i „ 

The citv is also well supplied with amusement and play 
.rrounds, having 1,000 acres in public parks, with boulevards 
connecting the'park system; five theaters and two summer 

^^Mr" Northern manufacturer, come South, see what we 
have talk to our business men and see it all that is saw 
and claimed for Memphis in this year book is not true. 
"Welcome to our city." 



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Bird's Eye View of Business District 



^e Cotton Market 



gy Jno. B. Turner 

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Mempliis handles 900,000 to 1,000,000 bales of eotton an- 
nually. From this amount every class of American grown 
eotton, excei)ting sea-island, may be selected, wliile at the 
same time the average grade of the cotton is higher than 
that of an}' market in the South. The value of last year's 
total receipts was $4(5,000,000. 

Memphis sells cotton to the spinning mills of the Caro- 
linas, when those mills want cotton of a liner, longer, and 
silkier staple than grown on the hills of the Eastern states. 

She .sells to the mills of New England, where the finest 
fabrics of America are spun and woven; she sells to Liver- 
pool, to ilancliester, to Havre, to Bremen, to Spain and 
even to Russia and Japan. In no market of the world 
where cotton goods are made is Jlemjihis unrepresented. 

When Rameses ruled Egypt an older Memphis sat at 
the apex of the Nile delta and was the conunercial metropo- 
lis of the country. Her modern namesake sits at tlie head 
of the Yazoo-Mississippi delta, larger in extent than that 
of the Nile and capable of a more diversified i)roductivity. 
Called a delta, this land is really an irregular and elon- 
gated ellipse, bounded on the one side by the Mississippi 
River and on the other by the Yazoo and its tributaries, 
which wash the foothills of Mississi])pi. Within this area 
terminating at Vicksburg, 350 miles to the southward, 
celebrated staple cottons are grown which conuuand i)rices 
often double those of the ordinary uplands and ranged this 
seas(ni from 16 to 34 cents per potnid. The highly culti- 
vated lands produce one bale to the acre. Outlying the 
delta in the creek and smaller river bottoms and through 
all of Eastern Arkansas is produced a cotton called ben- 
ders, which has a staple and body not possessed by other 
cotton. It commands a premium, and because this staple 
is in so much of the cotton sent to Memphis, the Mem- 
phis grade "'middling" outranks the similar grade of other 
markets and is one Tuark higher in Liverjiool than Liver- 
pool middling. A Memphis bill of lading on cotton is a 
guarantee of qiuility, so much so that action had to be 
taken by the Cotton Exchange to prevent shippers in re- 
mote sections from securing bogus bills purporting to be 
"Memphis" and infringing upon this marKefs well-earned 
reputation abroad. The abundant moisture, long growing 
season and extreme fertility of soil combine to make these 
lowland cottons the pride of the South. 

But the city does not depend alone upon this cotton, 
although justly celebrated because of it. From Tennessee, 
Alabama, and the higher lands of Mississippi and Arkansas 
cotton comes which meets the needs of another class of 
consumers. The assortment is luiequaled and facilities 
for handling unsurpassed. Within the past two years the 
system of warehousing cotton has been revohitionized. 
Now no city in the world has a better system than Mem- 
l)his. Her storage capacity, when j)rojected improvements 
are completed will be 250,000 bales. At present the Mem- 
phis warehouse com))an.y has eighty connected warehouses 
which store 100.000 bales. They will double this, the bonds 
for the extensions having already been placed. This is the 
most complete plant of its kind in America, the cotton 
being unloaded from the trains, into the warehouse, sam- 
pled, graded, sold, and sent to the compress without being 
exposed to the weather and altogether, so far as the labor 
of handling goes, by nnichinery. Gravity and overhead 
trolley systems displace the negro, the nuile and the dray 
so long a picturesque feature of Southern cotton towns. 
The trains bearing the cotton in or out are moved into the 
eotton yard and up to the doors of the warehouses. Re- 
cent visitors to the city have remarked upon the absence 
of long lines of cotton in the streets, the drays blocking 



crossings and warehousemen and cotton classers in their 
long duck coats. This is the reason of it: Modern meth- 
ods have displaced the pieturesipie and the antiquated. 
The saving in protection to cotton is thousands of dollars 
annually. 

In addition to this large system the Merchants' Cotton 
Press & Storage Co. has completed a warehouse and com- 
press with a cajiacity of 35,000 bales in the southern part 
of the city and near the river, where cotton may be un- 
loaded from both river and rail and stored under proper 
conditions. This means the abandonuu-nt of uptown ware- 
houses with their long, ludiniken Ijrii-k «alls and glaring 
ixisters. Eventually these structures will be replaced with 
modern oH'ice and liusiness buildings. 

Storage facilities and increased banking capital are lend- 
ing to increase receipts here and cotton withheld from 
market by the F'armers' Union and other gro«:ers is shipped 
to Memphis, stored and finally sold hy her factors directly 
to consumers in any country where' the particular class 
of cotton is wanted. Because of the facilities thus afforded 
the matter of marketing the cotton crop is not compressed 
within a few months, giving the city an appearance of 
great activity for one part of the year, while another part 
was lifeless. English and continental buyers now remain 
on the market practically the whole year, leaving only 
during midsununer for a trip to their native countries. The 
old truism that a cotton town was a six-months' town is 
no hniger tenable in Memphis. 

Developments of the past realized in the present, assure 
the future. A market which, like Kipling's ship, has 
found herself, will not be slow in making the most of 
means at hand. Already the Cotton Exchange, compose<l 
of leo of the most progressive members of the eotton 
trade, has appointed a committee which is considering the 
fornudation of rules for f. o. b. business. This means 
that buyers here will daily make bids to the smaller towns 
of the country under the rules of the exchange for cotton 
to arrive at Memphis perhaps days later. The owner of 
cotton at any shipping point may then sell his cotton or 
offer it in Memphis any day at the ruling market values 
of that day. 

The extension of the levee system is opening for culti- 
vation vast areas of highly productive land not alone on 
the Mississippi River, but on its tributaries in Arkansas 
and elsew-here. The St. Francis River to the west inun- 
dates thousands of acres, which will be exceptionally fine 
cotton producing territory when drained. In Mississippi 
local drainage districts are being organized and local taxes 
collected for drainage projects which will clear and free of 
surplus water whole counties which heretofore have been 
cultivated in patches only. This cotton, remember, will 
be of high class and staple. In the hills there has been a 
turn to fruit and truck growing and diversified farming, 
which has advanced the productivity of the land, and 
des]iite the fact that millions of dollars are received annu- 
ally by growers from this source the production of cotton 
is showing a progressive increase. It seems not unrea- 
sonable that the eotton receipts of Memphis under a s,ystem 
of high cultivation and with the extension of the arable 
area will reacli in the not distant future 1,500,000 to 
li.Ooo.ooo bales, and may at any time go in excess of 
1,000,000 bales. 

The proximiity, abundance, and variety of raw material 
has already attracted a large bag manufacturing company, 
while makers of other classes of eotton goods are investi- 
gating conditions. May not the greater Memphis of the 
future be famous for her eotton maiuifactures, as well as 
her cotton supplies ? 




Madison Avenue 



The 



Hardwood Lumber Market 



'By J. W. McClure, Secretary, Lumberman's Club 



The history of the lumber business of Memphis covers 
a period of less than half a century. Before that time the 
primeval forests surrounding the site of our present city 
had scarcdy been touched,. and no mind had conceived the 
thought of the vast storehouse of treasure which nature 
had provided. Timber was so plentiful, and there was so 
little realization of its true value that it was often con- 
sidered a cumbrance to the ground, and great quanities 
were destroyed in opening up farms and plantations. In 
1860 a small saw-mill was built on the site of the present 
lumber district on Wolf River. The growth of the in- 
dustry, slow at first, increased with the years, until Mem- 
phis has reached the foremost position in the world of 
the hardwood lumber industry, now standing far in the 
lead as a producing and distributing market. 

So much lias been said and written in regard to the 
greatness of Memphis as a lumber market that further 
remarks on the subject may seem superfluous, but it may 
be of interest to many to know that there are now twenty- 
six sawmills in active operation in Memphis, most of which 
are large modern plants; thirty-one wholesale concentrat- 
ing and distributing yards; thirty-one Memphis firms who 
operate mills in the country surrounding Memphis; nine 
Memphis firms who do a wholesale hardwood lumber busi- 
ness, but do not operate mills or yards, and twenty-one 
branch ofl'ices of Northern and Eastern firms. In addition 
there are five veneer plants and five cooperage mills operat- 
ing in this city. The list is a long one and contains the 
names of many firms who are known wherever American 
hardwoods are used throughout the world. To operate 
this enormous business requires a capital approximating 
$12,000,000, and an idea of the volume of lumber manufac- 
tured and handled by these firms may be had from the 
following statistics compiled by the Lumbermen's Club of 
Memphis for the year 1906: 

Feet. 
Amount of lumber manufactured in Memphis. . 103,463,000 
Amount of lumber manufactured by Memphis 

firms outside of Memphis 229,397,000 

Amount of lumber varded in Memphis, manu- 
factured outside of Memphis 80,270,000 

Amount of lumber handled direct from mills 
and yards outside of Jlemphis by Memphis 
firms, not manufactured by them 135,646,000 

Total handled by Memphis firms 548,776,000 

Amount of lumber exported by Memphis firms 30,462,000 

Amount of logs received by cars at Men) phis, 

manufactured into lumber 78,933,000 

Amount of logs received by river at Memphis, 

manufactured into lumber 33,257,000 

Amount of logs and bolts received by car and 
river at Memphis, manufactured into cooper- 
age stock • 20,200,000 

Amount of logs received by car and river, manu- 
factiued into vehicle stock, turned work and 
pump rods 12,600,000 

Amount of lumber consumed by retail yards 

in Memphis 100,000,000 

Amount of lumber consumed by factory trade 

in Memphis 60,624,000 



The figures for 1907 have not been compiled at this 
writing, but are expected to show a substantial increase 
over 1906 in spite of the disastrous financial conditions 
which prevailed during the latter part of this year. In 
this connection it might be well to point to the conservat- 
ism of Memphis huiibermen, as shown in the fact, that 
not a single Memphis firm failed as a result of the re- 
cent panic. 

Memphis is excellently situated as an exporting market, 
having favorable freight rates to the seaboard, and num- 
bers among her lumbermen some of the largest exporters 
of hardwoods in this country. Onlj' within the last ten 
years has Memphis grown into prominence as an exporting 
center, but during that time the enterprising exporters of 
this city have firmly established their brands in all the 
markets of Europe. 

It has been only within the last five or six years that 
Memphis has grown to any proportions as a consuming mar- 
ket for hardwood lumber, but the advantages of Memphis 
as a location for woodworking plants are so patent that 
the eyes of numbers of Northern and Eastern manufac- 
turers are turning this way and new names are rapidly 
being added to the list of consumers in this city, until the 
growth has reached a marvelous impetus. Economic influ- 
ences are at work that will cause Memphis in the next few 
years to become as great a consuming market as it is at 
present a producing market. With unsurpassed shipping 
facilities both bv rail and water, and with the advantage 
of being located' at about the center of the hardwood pro- 
duction of the United States, situated on the borders of the 
vast forests of the Mississippi and Arkansas delta coun- 
tries, and holding the first position in the world as a 
producing market of hardwood lumber, Memphis offers 
attractions for the consumer which are unequaled by any 
other city in the country. 

Among the consumers operating in Memphis are now 
numbered two car works, five box factories, sixteen planing 
mills, three flooring plants, two cofl'in factories, two car- 
riage factories, two wagon works, three agricultural imple- 
ment factories, two screen door works, two handle fac- 
tories, four dimension stock mills, two furniture factories, 
also plants manufacturing matches, pumps, sash, doors and 
blinds, staves, spokes, skewers, poles and shafts, trunks, 
refrigerators, interior finish and other mill work. 

The growth of Memphis as a lumber market is reflected 
in the growth of the Lumbermen's Club, which was organ- 
' ized in 1898 as a social club with a small membership, and 
which has grown to a membership of 132, having become 
one of the strongest commercial organizations in the city, 
and tlie largest local lumber organization in the world. 

A good portion of the accessible hardwood timber in 
the Memphis territory is already in the hands of large 
operators, but the railroads are continually opening up 
new territory to the lumberman, and there are yet vast 
areas which have not been made accessible. The position 
of Memphis in the lumber industry is therefore assured 
for many years to come, especially as the educational 
campaign initiated by the Forestry Department of the 
national government will have an increasing effect in 
carefully conserving and economically using the forests 
which are remaining throughout the country. 




Colton Exchange 




CossJtt Library 



The Cotton Seed frolturts Utarto 



IF. P. BATTLE 



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Jlemphis is the greatest cotton seed product market in 
the world. There are nine oil mills here, crushing annu- 
ally one hundred thousand tons of cotton seed and turning 
out manufactured product to the value of over two and a 
quarter million dollars — this in itself giving Memphis the 
prestige of being the largest producing point in the world. 
However, there are other reasons why it should be con- 
sidered as the foremost market in the cotton product world, 
for by reason of its geographical position, situated as it 
is, midway between the buyers and sellers, it offers facili- 
ties unequaled by any other city. The Memphis brokers 
and dealers handle, aside from the products of the Mem- 
phis mills, the greater part of the products manufactured 
by mills in Mississippi and Arkansas and a large part of 
the Oklahoma, Louisiana and Alabama production, thus 
clearly establishing the reputation for Memphis of being 
the foremost cotton seed product market of the world. 

The majority of people do not appreciate the important 
part that the cotton seed takes in the commerce and trade 
of the country. 

From the time it starts on its journey from the farm its 
course is interesting. The oil mill takes it, and after it 
goes through the process of separation, there its several 
parts go their several Avays. The lint, which is the shont 
fiber left on the seed by the gin, finds its way into mat- 
tresses, mops, gun-cotton, horse collars and other uses. 
The hulls are fed to cattle, as the feed value of hulls are 
equal to the best grade of hay. The meats are cooked and 
pressed and after the oil is extracted, this cake is either 
ground into cotton seed meal or shipped in slabs. It is the 
highest grade feed known and is sold in enormous quan- 
tities to all the markets of the world. The foreigner appre- 
ciates it most highly and a very large per cent is exported 
to the markets of Europe. The crude oil is refined and 
finds its way into many channels of trade. It is largely 
used in the making of compound lard, butterine and soap. 
It is used largely as a salad oil for table use, taking the 
place of olive oil, it being more palatable than the average 
olive oil sold in this country. It is used in large quantities 
in the French markets, where it is mixed with olive oil and 
then shipped back to American markets and sold at an 
advanced price as olive oil. 

Cotton seed oil, as it comes from the seed, is known as 
crude oil; before it is used for edible purposes, such as 
cooking oil, salad oils and compound lard, it is put through 
a refining process. At the present time there are two refin- 



eries in Memphis, these being in connection with two of 
the crude mills, but they refine only a small percentage of 
the oil made in Memphis territory. 

Considering the ideal location of Memphis, with its many 
railroads, the Mississippi River, two belt lines, its close 
proximity to the raw material, its favorable freight rates 
to all consuming points, it is a wonder that we have no 
big cotton oil refineries here, refineries big enoiigh to 
handle the oil produced here and at mills in contiguous 
territory. The same applies to lard, compound plants and 
soap factories. At present there is one compound plant 
and one soap factory located in Memphis. 

To give some idea of the important part that cotton oil 
takes in the world's commerce, the record of the United 
States government is given below, showing the exports of 
cotton seed oil in January, 1908: 

Gals. 

United Kingdom 639,443 $ 253,375 

Austria Hungary 104,400 42,107 

Belgium 63,520 26,740 

France 2,384,965 983,900 

Germany 517,734 210,004 

Italy 325,610 139,260 

Netherlands 1,163,244 450,466 

Other Europe 409,250 172,540 

British North America 143,012 41,650 

Central American States and British 

Honduras 13,661 6,139 

Mexico 443,220 157,381 

Cuba 33,186 14,647 

Other West Indies and Bermuda 106,268 47,214 

Argentina 40,755 17,830 

Brazil 65,317 27,937 

Chile 3,504 1,838 

Other South America 26,053 12,256 

British Australasia 14,928 7,431 

Other Asia and Oceania 2,195 994 

British Africa 2,938 1,364 

All other Africa 310,798 137,036 

Total 6,803,001 $2,752,089 

This oil is used in many ways in the above-named foreign 
countries, where its merits are known and appreciated even 
more than it is here in the South, the home of the cotton 
seed, thus emphasizing the truth of "a prophet is not 
without honor save in his own country." 




First Baptist Church 




Second Street 




The Gram Market 



By L. J. Donelson 




In the past ten or fifteen years, Memphis as a grain 
market has made strides that will compare favorably, if not 
surpass, any other branch of business. We need to go 
liack only a few years to find a few struggling grain deal- 
ers at Memphis, doing mostly a retail business. This was 
before the Illinois Central, Frisco, Rock Island, Iron Moun- 
tain and Cotton Belt railroads built their lines into 
Memphis. 

The gi'ain received at that time came by boat and 
a large part of the business was consignments shipped to 
this market to be sold for the account of the shipper. These 
consignments were mostly shipped by boat, and the grain 
was necessarily shipped in sacks, for it could not be handled 
by boat in bulk as it is being handled in car lots today. 

THe Illinois Central Railroad penetrating the great grain 
state of Illinois, reaching out into Iowa and Nebraska, 
together with the Frisco, Rock Island, Iron Mountain and 
Cotton Belt railroads, make Memphis, as a grain market, 
a formidable competitor of cities of a much larger popu- 
lation than 300,000, and she is destined with fair and equal 
freight rates to outstrip them all. This is a broad state- 
ment and it may be asked why such a claim is made. (We 
answer bj' pointing you to the records shown further along 
in this article.) Those interested in the grain trade know 
the danger.? and trouble thereof. They know that grain, 
especially corn, is a perishable article, particularly during 
the germinating season, and it is at that time (during 
the germinating season), which lasts from March 1st to 
June 1st, that grain is in greatest demand and it will often 
get out of condition and not infrequently it Ijecomes hot 
and sour and must be handled quickly. 

Buyers to the south of us and east of us and southwest 
of us are aware of this and naturally look for a market 
close at hand, where they can buy a car of grain and get 
it quickly. Memphis as a grain market fills the bill. 

A look at the map shows this to be true. Memphis has 
the location, and every year her grain men realize more 
fully their splendid opportunity to make Memphis next to 
none as a gi-ain market. Today we have in Memphis 
twenty-six grain dealers, who enjoy the confidence of ship- 
pers, as well as the buyers; a confidence gained by correct 
business methods and fair treatment to all. 

Unless the interest of the shipper is carefully guarded, 
as well as the interest of the buyer, a market will soon 
earn a bad reputation. The interest of shipper and buyer 



are looked after by the Memphis Weighing and Inspection 
Department, under the auspices of the Memphis Merchants' 
Exchange, and any attempt at imposition would soon be 
discovered and the impostor promptly dealt with as his 
misdeed deserved. 

To meet such an emergency and to regulate trade abuses 
generally, Memphis has as an adjunct to the Memphis 
Merchants' Exchange, the Memphis Hay and Grain Associ- 
ation, whose business it is to investigate irregularities of 
all kinds and regulate them. This association is an impor- 
tant factor in building up Memphis as a grain market, and 
the larger the trade grows, the better it serves to fulfill its 
mission. 

Just a few years ago, the grain inspector experienced 
considerable trouble in locating ears of gi-ain received on 
the different railroads. It was not an unusual occurrence 
for several days' time to be consumed in locating a car 
after its arrival. Today it is quite different; each and 
every railroad has a separate inspection track and the 
inspector now has no difficulty in locating and inspecting 
a car the day it arrives; in fact, nearly every ear is in- 
spected by 11 a.m. of the day it is received at Memphis. 

The records show that in the year 1895 there were re- 
ceived at Memphis, nine hundred and two thousand, nine 
hundred and seventy-four (902,974) bushels of corn; one 
million, nine hundred and fifty thousand, five hundred and 
forty (1,950.540) bushels of oats, and six hundred and 
eleven thousand, five hundred and sixty-four (611,564) bales 
of hay, and for the 3'ear 1907 there were received five mil- 
lion and twenty-eight thousand (5,028,000) bushels of corn; 
nine million, seven hundred and forty-one thousand, eight 
hundred (9,741,800) bushels of oats and one million, one 
hundred and twenty thousand, three hundred and fifty 
(1,120,350) bales of hay. This record shows the rapid 
growth of Memphis as a grain market, keeping pace with 
the wonderful inci'ease in population of the city of Memphis. 

The elevator capacity, warehouse and storage room and 
all other equipments for the handling of this largely 
increased business for the present is ample; but should 
trade conditions develop heavier receipts it may be neces- 
sary in the near future to have more elevator capacity. 
The grain men, as a rule, are on the alert, quick to see 
the needs required to do a profitable business, and as 
competition is keen and profits small, nothing is left 
undone by the dealers here to make Memphis as a grain 
market, just a shade better than any other markp*-. 




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MEMPHIS 



As a POINT of CONCENTRA- 
TION and DISTRIBUTION 



By ] . S. DAVANT, Commissioner, Memphis Freight Bureau 



For very many years Memphis has been recognized as 
the largest concentration point for cotton, and one of the 
largest grocery markets in the country, which is accounted 
for, in the fact, that Memphis is in the center of a ter- 
ritory which produces more cotton, manufactures less, and 
buys more of every other commodity, in proportion, than 
any country in the world. 

But other considerations go to make Memphis a most 
favorable point of concentration and distribution, which of 
course consists in the facilities for bringing commodities 
to Memphis; for handling them at, and getting them out 
of Memphis. 

In all these respects Memphis is most fortunate. In 
the first place, the rates to Memphis are favorable, because 
of the infiuence of river and rail competition by which it 
is possible to deliver at the lowest cost articles grown 
and manufactured in other parts of the country. 

Then the facilities for handling these commodities at 
Memphis are favorable; having been greatly improved dur- 
ing the past few years. Formerly, all of the cotton and 
most of the merchandise handled were subject to two 
drayage charges, and the warehouse facilities were inade- 
quate to care for the cotton sent here for storage, which 
resulted in the blocking of our streets with cotton; but 
these conditions no longer exist. 

At an outlay of about one and a half million dollars 
such additions have been made by the Merchants' Cotton 
Press & Storage Company, and the Memphis Warehouse 
Company for the storage of cotton, as that there is no 
more cotton stacked in streets and on open lots, but the 
Memphis dealers are, for the first time in the history of 
the city, prepared to store under cover all cotton consigned 
to them. 

As have improved the conditions for handling cotton, so 
also have improved those for handling other commodities. 
Merchandise of all kinds is now handled in warehouses 
located on railroad tracks, eliminating the cost of dray- 
age, and as delivering lines absorb in their rates the cost 
for switching on all competitive traffic (which constitutes 
about nine-tenths of the business), it is handled at the 
mininnun cost. 

Operating, therefore, under favorable conditions for get- 
ting the commodities to Memphis, and having facilities for 
economic handling at Memphis, the next consideration is 
of the facilities for getting them to the consumers. 

The conditions for handling cotton, cotton seed products, 
lumber and grain are particularly favorable. Under exist- 
ing arrangements for concentrating and reconsigning, cot- 
ton may be brought from almost the entire Memphis ter- 
ritory, stored, sold and reshipped to final destination at 
the rates in effect at the points of origin; so that with 
these privileges, and the low rates on cotton which comes 
to Memphis by river and wagons, etc., to domestic and 
foreign points of manufacture, Memphis is most favorably 
located for the distribution of this commodity to all parts 
of the world, and the time is not remote when cotton will 
be stored at this point throughout the years for distribu- 
tion to spinners, just as they need it, of this and other 
countries. 

These storage facilities above referred to, where the cost 
of insurance and storage may be reduced to the minimum, 
make this system of distribution not only economical, but 
attractive and desirable. 

Cotton seed products are distributed hence to consumers, 
domestic and foreign, at favorable rates, made under the 
influence of river and rail competition. This is demon- 



strated in the fact that more cotton seed is crushed at 
Memphis than at any other point. 

Because of the contiguity of Memphis to the hardwood 
forest, and the favorable conditions which have existed for 
handling, this has been a most advantageous point for the 
concentration and distribution of hardwood lumber. From 
small beginnings, the business has grown, within very few 
years, to ver.y large proportions, and with equitable rates, 
it should, and doubtless will, continue to grow. Already 
Memphis is said to be the largest hardwood lumber market 
in the world, which comes from the recognition of the 
advantages of this as the best point of distribution to all 
parts of the world. 

With the present rates, reconsigning and milling-in- 
transit privileges, the conditions for distributing grain and 
grain products could scarcely be improved upon, and with 
the storage facilities amplified, Memphis should rank among 
the largest points of distribution of these commodities. 

Memphis is likewise the best possible point of distribu- 
tion for all other commodities. The rates are lower and 
the time of delivery shorter, than from any of the larger 
primary markets of the north, St. Louis, Louisville, Cin- 
cinnati, Chicago, etc., to all points in Arkansas, Texas, 
Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia and a 
large part of South Carolina and Oklahoma, which gives 
her manufacturers and jobbers all possible opportunity for 
the sale of their wares. 

This advantage of situation, and other conditions are 
recognized and demonstrated in the location here of dis- 
tributing depots by the largest manufacturers of iron and 
steel articles, agricultural implements, packing house prod- 
ucts, vehicles, etc., and by the recent establishment of 
factories for the manufacture of commodities of all sorts. 

The controlling elements making up this system of con- 
centration and distribution consists of the following facili- 
ties for transportation: The tlu'ee Belt Lines — Union Rail- 
way, operated by the Missouri Pacific System; Louisville 
& Nashville railroad belt; Illinois Central railroad belt. 

These, with the terminal tracks of other railroads, con- 
nect practically all railroads with tlie industries, located on 
tracks, at a maximum cost of switching of ,$2 per ear, on 
local shipments. (Switching on through shipments being 
absorbed by carriers, as above indicated.) 

The Mississippi River and tributaries, with frequent sail- 
ings and low rates to much of the Memphis territory, bring 
the consumers on these rivers in close toiich with the Mem- 
phis manufactm-er and jobber, and make the mines and 
factories of the North accessible to Memphis at the lowest 
cost for transportation. 

In the development of plans by the government for the 
improvement of these waterways, inestimable benefits are 
promised for Memphis. The congress now in session, in 
response to the demand which has gone up from all parts 
of the nation, will doubtless appoint a commission, whose 
duty it will be to put in motion the machinery that will 
eventuate in the creation of an inland sea on which may 
safely ply the ocean craft, and on which Memphis at her 
own docks may load her cargoes of cotton, lumber, grain 
and the products of her mills for all parts of the world. 

But we are not to wait for the fulfillment of these bright 
promises for the means of transportation for Memphis is 
rich in facilities by rail, as will be seen by statement of 
territory reached by the 40,000 miles of rails of her own 
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The Southern Railway system, traverse the states of 
Tennessee, Kentucky, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Flor- 
ida, North and South Carolina. Virginia, Indiana, Illinois, 
with 7,500 miles. 

The Louisville & Nashville and Nash\ ille, Chattanooga 
& St. Louis Railway system cover the sfates of Illinois, 
Indiana, Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, .Vorth Carolina, 
Georgia, Florida, Alagama, Mississippi and Louisiana, with 
from 5,000 to 6,000 miles. 

The Illinois Central and Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Rail- 
road system extends through the states of Tennessee, Ken- 
tucky, Indiana, Iowa, Jlinnesota, Wisconsin, Mississippi, 
Alabama and Louisiana, with 6,000 miles. 



The Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific and Frisco system 
extends throiigh the states of Alabama, Mississippi, Ten- 
nessee, Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, 
Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Colo- 
rado and New Mexico. 

Missouri Pacific and Cotton Belt, Arkansas, Louisiana, 
Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Illinois, Kansas, Nevada, Colo- 
rado, Utah and New Mexico, in all about 20,000 miles. 

Of course, thi- paper would be incomplete without the 
statement that Memphis is and has been for the past thir- 
teen years, eq.iii ped with a freight bureau, whose duty it 
is to look after and endeavoring in every way to protect 
the interest of the rer;^i\ers and shippers of freight in all 
matters pertaining to transportation. 



AS A JOBBING POINT 



In order that the reader may form a proper estimate of 
the magnitude of Memphis as a jobbing center, we present 
a list of the number of jobbers and manufacturers in the 
diflerent lines of trade: 



JOBBERS. 



24 Grocers. 

9 Provisions and meats. 

12 Produce and fruits. 

26 Grain. 

2 Seed. 

8 Dry goods and notions. 

2 Millinery. 

2 Clothing. 

3 Hats and caps. 

2 Boots and shoes. 

5 Hardware. 



Sporting goods. 
Iron and mill supplies. 
Agricul'ral implements. 
Plumbers' supplies. 
Electric supplies. 
Paints and oils. 
Lubricating and illu- 
minating oils. 
Glass. 

Queensware. 
Mantels and grates. 



6 Drugs. 

6 Saddlery, harness, etc. 

5 Wagons. 

3 Paper. 

1 Rubber goods. 

4 Wall paper. 

5 Office supplies. 

3 Furniture and carpets. 

6 Cigars and tobacco. 
5 Music houses. 

10 Beer depots. 



20 Coal. 

2 Brewers. 

5 Lime and cement. 

2 Bar supplies. 

3 Barber supplies. 

2 Photo supplies. 

3 Dental supplies. 

1 Druggist supplies. 

1 Butchers' supplies. 



MANUFACTLTRES. 



3 Agricul'ral implements. 

1 Artificial limbs. 

2 Art glass. 

15 Builders' supplies. 

5 Box and crate. 

1 Bridge structural steel. 

1 Buttons (pearl). 

3 Boats and launches. 

1 Bale ties. 

4 Brooms and mops. 

2 Bags (cotton and bur- 

laps). 

1 Bleachery (cotton gds.). 

2 Boilers. 

2 Brass foundries. 

3 Brick and tile. 

1 Brick machinery. 

3 Bank and bar fixtures. 

2 Breweries. 

2 Coffin and caskets. 



2 Cars (box and flat). 

9 Cooperage. 

2 Cotton gin machinery. 
1 Columns. 

1 Celluloid novelties. 

3 Chemists (Mfg.). 

9 Cotton seed oil mill. 

12 Bottlers of soft drinks. 

3 Cotton seed oil refiners. 

4 Candy. 

1 Cotton choppers. 

1 Distillery. 

1 Frogs and switches. 

1 Fireworks. 

1 Fertilizer. 

7 Foundries. 

4 Furniture. 

1 Golf sticks. 

2 Grocers' sundries. 
2 Hardwood flooring. 



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4 


Roofing. 


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Horse collar and pads. 


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Refineries (molasses). 
Sash and door. 


6 


Harness. 




Stove and ranges. 





Ice. 




Shuttle blocks. 


4 


Ice cream. 




Shirts. 


3 


Jewelery. 




Skirts. 


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Lumber. 




Scale. 


7 


Machinery. 




Saw mill machinery. 


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Mattresses. 




Spring beds. 


2 


ilaearoni and spaghetti. 




Sad irons. 


1 


Matches. 




Soap. 


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Overalls. 




Suspenders. 


2 


Optical goods. 


3 


Tents and awnings. 


2 


Pails and buckets. 


2 


Trunks and valises. 


1 


Pumps. 


3 


Veneer mills. 


3 


Paint and varnish. 


4 


Vinegar, etc. 


2 


Paper pulp. 


5 


Vehicle material and 


2 


Pants "Jeans." 




dimension stock. 


5 


Patent medicine. 


4 


Wagons. 


1 


Refrigerator. 


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Wheelbarrow. 




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By Do C. McMCIILIL 



Memphis has a modern system of iniblie schools, com- 
fortably housed in well-constructed, sanitary buildings of 
recent design, heated and ventilated by approved end effi- 
cient devices. There are nineteen large schools for white 
children and nine for colored pupils, in which are enrolled 
nearly fourteen thousand pupils and students. 

The public school system of Memphis is under the direct 
control of a board of education, composed of five honored 
citizens, who are elected by all the people of the city at 
a general election. The civic pride of the community is 
such that men of the highest standing are selected, not 
because of party affiliation but because of fitness for such 
an important trust. Hon. C. C. Ogilvie is president; Dr. 
G. B. Malone, vice-president; Dr. E. A. Neely, chairman 
of teachers' and text books committee: Judge .T. M. Steen, 
chairman of buildings and grounds committee, and Hon. C. 
J. O'Neil, chairman of finance committee. 

The work of administration is carried on I y a secretary, 
a superintendent of instruction, an assistant superintend- 
ent, and a supervisor of repairs. These executive officers, 
under the general direction of the Board of Education, are 
in charge of the routine work of the schools and are se- 
lected because of their known fitness to discharge the duties 
they are appointed to perform. The secretary is Hon. A. 
B. Hill, who has continuously filled the position for twenty- 
six years. The superintendent is I. C. McNeill, succeeding 
Cen. George W. Gordon, who retired from the superintend- 
ency a little more than a year ago, to accept a seat in con- 
grss to which he had been elected. The assistant super- 
intendent, Wharton S. .Jones, is a well-known educator of 
:Memphis, a member of the State Board of Education, who 
has held his present position for five years. The super- 
visor of repairs is Mr. T. L. Epperson, a practical, efficient 
and exemplary man who gives all his time to the improve- 
ment and protection of the property of the school district. 

The elementary schools are under the direct supervision 
of principals, who with carefully selected teachers, carrv 
on the work of instruction as indicated by a standard 
course of study. This course of study covers a period of 
eight years and prepares all who complete it to begin the 
work of any flrst-claas high school. In the selection of 
new teachers for the schools, preference is given to gradu- 
ates of normal schools or universities, who have had 
advanced training in the subjects to be taught, as well as 
in the theory and art of teaching. Because of the care 
taken in the selection of teachers and the efforts all make 
to keep in touch with modern school requirements, the 
teachers of Memphis take high rank among the educators 
of the country and enjoy to a marked degree the confi- 
dence and respect of the patrons of the schools. 

The Memphis High School for white children only is an 
institution with the American standard high school courses, 
covering four yearg' time. It is open to graduates from the 



Memphis grammar schools, to graduates from other good 
elementary schools with a course of study equivalent to 
that administered locally, to students from other high 
schools, and to pupils from other sections who are able to 
pass the entrance requirements in the fundamental branches 
usually taught in good elementary schools. There is a 
college preparatory course, designed to prepare students to 
enter American colleges and universities everywhere with- 
out further training and upon credentials which are ac- 
cepted by institutions of rank that receive graduates from 
accredited high schools. The general course, with consid- 
erable required work in manual arts or domestic science, 
meets the conditions of preparation for many of life's 
duties. It is designed for students who are unable to take 
advantage of advanced training in colleges and universities. 
One-fourth of the required work in the general course is 
elective, thus providing liberally for training in the special 
lines of interest in the student's after life. The commercial 
course is designed to prepare pupils to hold positions in the 
business world. In addition to safe requirements in Eng- 
lish, mathematics, science, manual arts or domestic science, 
history, and civics, training under expert guidance in 
stenography, typewriting, and bookkeeping forms an in- 
tegral part of the work. 

In the work of the public schools, the services of a super- 
visor of drawing and mechanical arts, of a supervisor of 
physical training, of a supervisor of music, and of a super- 
visor of writing are required. These officers spend their 
time in the schools to advance the studies that naturally 
fall under their supervision as directed by the Board of 
Education and superintendent. 

There is under the management of the public school 
authorities a normal training school with a pedagogical 
course of study. Its purpose is to instruct untrained, aid 
or supply teachers in the funderaental conceptions of teach- 
ing so that they may render more effcient service in the 
schools when called into regular service. This work follows 
high school graduation and several teachers are admitted 
to positions each year from the classes of the normal train- 
ing school. 

Memphis is well supplied with private and parochial 
schools. There are several business colleges. Parochial 
schools are located in various sections of the city. St. 
Mary's School, Miss Thomas' School, St. Agnes' Academy, 
Sacred Heart Institute, and the Higbee School are good 
preparatory schools for young women. The Itlemphis Uni- 
versity School is a first-class preparatory school for young 
men. There are two well equipped medical colleges with 
standard courses in medicine. The Christian Brothers' 
College is a first-class Roman Catholic institution, from 
which many of the strong men in this section of the coun- 
try are graduated. 

Memphis offers splendid attractions to parents with chil- 
dren to educate. 




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The Religious Bxht of ii^mpl|ia 



THOMAS B. KING 



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The present attainments and fnture outlook of Memphis, 
or any great city, sliould not be measured solely by the 
magnificence of its commercial and industrial enterprises, 
nor by the height and spaciousness of her buildings, nor 
by the broad stretch of territory on which these have been 
erected. These are but manifestations of the brawn and 
brain of man, and of that still better force, which we are 
pleased to call, moral consciousness. Commerce must 
reckon witli this quality, that is found only in man, else 
the most gigantic schemes that may be projected will 
come to naught. It is as true as the law of gravity that 
the steps that lead to ultimate success are honesty, truth- 
fulness, sobriety and the practice of altruism. These 
essential qualities do not adhere naturally in matter, nor 
are they found in any of the characteristics of the animal, 
but appear only in man, who is endowed with the ability 
to recognize the supernatural and to appropriate the 
forces that come from this source. We call this religion, 
and in that broad sense we purpose to use it here. Na- 
tions have been found without books, without commercial 
and industrial enterprises, without schools and without 
written languages, but not without a religion. 

Religions, however, have differed in type and it is of 
the highest that is used in this article. Upon this may 
be predicated the highest moral sensibilities that are essen- 
tial in the maintenance of good government, and in carry- 
ing on of profitable commercial relationship. All trading 
is based largely upon confidence, and confidence is an out- 
growth of morality, and morality is bottomed upon a con- 
ception of some great religious truth. The fact is that 
confidence is an asset more extensively employed in trade 
relations than ready cash in hand. 

In her material growth, and commercial progress has 
Memphis been lax, or is she behind in her enterprises that 
foster these basic principles? 

In answering this question, it is admitted in the outset 
that a full outlay of all her best energies and talents has 
not been put forth in that direction. If such had been 
the case, we would not be very long in settling the con- 
troversy as to the location of the Garden of Eden. \\'e 
cannot say that everything has been done possible for 
the religious betterment of the people of Memphis, but 
speaking in a comparative sense, it is a fact that the 
churches and all ethical bodies afford splendid facilities 
for the quickening of a deeply spiritual life and for the 
cultivation of a practical godliness that will meet the 
needs of every human being, and, collaterally, give brace 
and tone to all of her commercial undertakings. There. 
are one hundred and sixty churches within the city, repre- 
senting many religions, denominations and sects. Among 
these there exists a broad and fraternal spirit to a com- 
mendable degree. The ecclesiastical guns are not turned 
against each other, but are daily firing upon the public 
and private evils that undermine the best institutions. 
Denominationism is apparent and self-assertive, but the 
lines of demarkation are often siibordinated to the one 
supreme purpose of planting the seed and nourishing the 
growth of the gospel of peace and good-will. The right 



to worship under one's "own vine and fig tree" is recog- 
nized to be cardinal, or a Divine right, therefore each 
res]ionsible being is enjoying that blessing in this great 
city. While this is true there is also a commonly accepted 
ground upon which all may and do stand in their efforts 
to impress upon men the moral obligations resting upon 
them as citizens and as a part of the great industrial 
whole. The communicants in these churches and the con- 
stituency that belong to each denomination or sect are 
equal to one-half the population of the city, thus making 
a large body whose hearts are touched at stated intervals 
by the men devoted to the high calling of priesthood and 
teachers in religious thought. These men and leaders 
whom we call preachers, or gentlemen of the cloth, are 
of the highest type of manhood and worthily magnify 
their position. Their blameless lives, as a rule, bespeak 
encouragement to and inspire hope in their followers. 

The Sunday-schools and societies for young people are 
doing aggressive, wholesome and splendid work. Doubtless 
no influences now operating in this city for good, both as 
it affects the present and future, exceed the earnest labors 
of the sclf-saeriflcing teachers and officers in these depart- 
ments in religious activities. 

The homes for the homeless and the asj'lums for the 
unfortunate, all foster institutions of the churches, are 
large in nmnber and very well equipped for immediate 
needs. The cry of the orphans, the groans of the aged, the la- 
mentations of the "down and out," are heard and hushed by 
the Y. M. C. A., public day-nurseries, kindergartens, old 
folks' homes, mission rooms, charitable dispensaries, and 
homes for the incurables. Statistics, however acciu-ate 
and comprehensive, cannot tell the whcdc story of the 
effect of religion upon the life of a couununity, nor the 
power of the churches for good upon the conduct of men. 
The influences of institutions that hold out highest ideals 
for the government of men has never yet been reduced to 
a mathematical certainty. Many, many lives, though they 
may not attend iqxin any religious service, are touched 
and made better by observing the conduct of the truly 
righteous. 

This fact is made evident by (he liberal responses by 
men throughout the city, having no church affiliations 
whatever, to appeals made for contributions to institu- 
tions that bear the stamp and indorsement of churches 
individually or collectively. They almost instinctively 
bow their heads in respect, when they see religion embodied 
in human efforts, for the amelioration of the suffering 
and the moral uplift of their fellows. 

Memphis opens her doors wide to all people of every 
religious name and order; preferably, of course, to those 
who deeply and persistently hold on to the highest ideals 
of riglit living — that kind' of religion that touches the 
inner consci(Uisness and works initwardly until the con- 
duct of man is controlled thereby. It is this type that 
is being insisted iqion by the leaders in religious centers 
which seeks ultinuitely to make them law-abiding citizens, 
honest traders and faithful and true to the home life. 




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Million Dollar Court House Under Construction 



MEMPHIS "BUILDING 



BY DAN C NEWTON, "BUILDING COMMISSIONER 



The year 1907 marked up a new era in the building liis- 
tory of the city of Memphis. It was one calculated to 
cause a glow of pride in the heart of every loyal Mem- 
phian. Especially is this true when the figures for 1907 are 
compared with those of 1906 and 1905. 

The sliowing made by the year only recently brought to 
a close is all the more remarkable, when one remembers 
that the last three months were marked with a financial 
depression and threatened panic in the world of business, 
which retarded business operations to a great extent, but 
all the more emphasized the record made by Memphis. 

The total amount e.xpended in building in Memphis dur- 
ing 1907 was $4,957,999, as against $4,346,767 in 1906, and 
$3,554,883 in 1905. 

But this amount for 1907 so close to the flvemillion- 
dollar mark does not necessary mean that this was all 
expended on new buildings in Memphis during the year. 
The cost of plumbing, wiring and the like is not included 
in the figures I have given, and these items will add fully 
35 per cent more to the total expended, bringing the figure 
some place above $6,000,000. 

Another interesting feature follows with the amount 
expended on building operations. During the year just 
closed, a total of 8,910 separate and distinct rooms were 
created in Memphis, as against 7,S:!7 in 1906 and 7,104 in 
1905. 

Of the buildings constructed and included in the amount 
I have given, they are divided as follows: 

Fireproof 28 

Brick and stone 101 

Veneered lirick and stone 104 

Hollow block and concrete 9 

Frame 1014 

Aditions, brick and frame 483 



While all this building has been in progress in Memphis, 
the older buildings have been able to maintain themselves, 
and in my rounds of the city I have been able to find but 
few vacant stores and houses. Some, of course, are in 
existence, but it is a condition constantlj' developing and 
nothing out of the ordinary. It is improbable they will 
continue in tliis condition for long, and at the same 
time it is an indication that our merchants and business 
men are constantly on the lookout for better and more 
satisfactory sites for their enterjirises and industries. 

Of the buildings which have been started in Memphis 
dining 1907, much might be said. The new court house 
is, of course, the most important structure, and its prog- 
ress towards completion is being watched with a deal of 
interest by all classes of citizens. 

The permit obtained in my office calls for the expen- 
diture of $750,0(10, b\it when it is complete it will have 
cost something iiKirc tlian a. million dollars. In my judg- 
ment it is one of tlie most beautiful pieces of architecture 
in the United States, and it is undoubtedly a thoroughly 
up-to-date public building, with its excellent sanitary sys- 
tem, its floors of reinforced concrete and the assurance that 
it is absolutely fireproof throughout. 

The new addition to the Peabody Hotel, recently opened, 
the handsome new fireproof home of the North Memphis 
Saxings Bank and the other buildings completed or nearly 
so, are an evidence of the prosperity Memphis has felt and 
the confidence of her citizens in her ability to maintain the 
topmost point in the galaxy of cities. 

The outlook for 1908 is already as assuring as 1907 was 
satisfactory, and from all sides come notes of encourage- 
ment and prophesy for another record-breaker, one which 
will beat the excellent record made by 1907. 





MEMPHIS WARE] 



^ Warehouses equipped with modern automatic fire 
sprinklers. 

^ Cover 526,000 square feet. 

^ Receiving courts and sheds cover 430,000 square feet. 

^ Delivering courts and sheds cover 450,000 square feet. 

^ Out- bound cotton sheds cover 180,000 square feet, 

^ Three press room sheds cover 75,000 square feet. 

^ Receiving capacity in twenty-four hours from 6,000 to 
8,000 bales. 




LARGEST COTTON WAREHOUSES 




OUSE COA^PAINV 



^ Delivering capacity in twenty-four hours from 6,000 to 

7,000 bales. 
^ Compressing capacity in twenty-four hours from 6,000 

to 7.000 bales. 
^ Six miles of Railroad tracks on premises, 

^ Three miles of overhead monoraH trolley system, op- 
erated by gravity. 

^ One sixty-ton locomotive. 

^ Surface area covered by Warehouses, Compresses, out- 
bound sheds, railroad tracks, and trolley system and 
tracks, 125,000 acres. 



ND COMPRESSES IN THE WORLD 




A Park Scene 



Climatology of Memphh 



By S. C. EMERY 



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Memphis is located in the extreme south\vei3t corner of 
Tennessee, about twelve miles north of the Mississippi 
state line. That portion of the city fronting the Mississippi 
River is built upon what is commonly known as the fourth 
Chickasaw Bluff, which ranges along the river bank at a 
height of from twenty to sixty feet. The station of the 
United States Weather Bureau in Memphis was established 
in February, 1871, and the records on file show an uninter- 
rupted seiies of observations from the date of opening 
dow n to the present time. These observations cover all the 
important climatic features, such as the pressure of the 
air, temperature, rain and snowfall, wind direction and 
velocity, sunshine and cloudiness, humidity and occiu'rence 
of frost. Covering as they do a period of about thirty- 
seven years, the normals and means here given fairly rep- 
resent tlie true climatic conditions for this section: 

Precipitation — The average annual precipitation is about 
50^/^; inches, and has varied from 73.50 inches in 1877 to 
34.58 inches in 1901. The greatest precipitation usually 
occurs in January and March, with an average of about 5% 
inches for each of those months. May and .J>uie average 
about 4% inches, after which there is a gradual decrease 
in the monthly amounts to a minimum of a little over 2% 
inches in October. September and October are, as a rule, 
the dryest months, but in November and December the 
amount of I'ainfall about equals that for May and June. 

The average number of rainy days that occur annually 
is 115, distributed by seasons as follows: Winter, 33 days; 
sjjring, 32; sununer, 28; fall, 22. March has the greatest 
luiMilier of rainy days, the average being 12, and October 
has tlie least with an average of 5. The following heavy 
monthly rainfalls have been recorded: 13.!)0 inches in April, 
1877; is. 16 inches in .June, 1877; 12.87 inches in January, 
1882; 13.34 inches in May, 1893, and 14.53 inches in No- 
vember, 1906. The greatest amount of rainfall recorded 
in any twenty-four hours was 9.67 inches on June 8-9, 
1877. ' 

The average annual snowfall at Memphis is about seven 
inches, January and February having on an average a lit- 
tle more than two inches each while the March average is 
about one inch, though as a matter of fact, the records 
show very few days with snow in that month. However, 
the greatest snowfall on record occurred on March 17-18, 
1S92, when IS inches fell in twent3'-four hours. No snow 
lias ever occurred in Ajjril, and there is no record of snow 
in November, and very few have occurred during the past 
twenty years in December. The heaviest monthly snow- 
falls for December was 6 inches in 1897, and S^-o inches in 
1901. 

Temperature — The mean temperature of the year, as 
well as for the difl'erent months, is slightly above the nor- 
mal fin- the whole state, and varies between 59.6 and 63.1. 
The highest temperature on record is 104, which occurred 
.July 23, 1901, which was the month with more extremely 
higii temperatiu'es than any other in the past thirty-six 
y<'ars, there being only three days in the whole month 
when the temperature did not rise to 90 or above, and on 
three days it was above 100. During the past thirty-six 
years the temperature has reached 100 degrees two times 
in June, three in July and eight in August. The lowest 



temperatm'e recorded was 9 degrees below zero, February 
12, 1899, and the next lowest was 8 degrees below zero, 
January 9, 1896. Below zero temperatures have occurred 
as follows: January 6, 18S4, 2 below; January 8, 1886, 2 
lielow; 9th, S below; 10th, 2 below, and 11th, 2 below; 
February S, 1895, 3 below; February 12, 1899, 9 below, and 
13th, 6 below, a total in thirtj'-six years of nine days. 

Temperatures of 90 degrees or more occur on an average 
of 42 days in the year and on 38 days it falls to 32 degrees 
or lower. Temperatures of 95 degrees occur on an average 
of 10 days annually, while temperatures of 10 degrees or 
lower occur on an average of only about twice annual!}', 
and in the last thirty-six years there have been 14 during 
which the temperature did not fall as low as 10 degrees. 
The lowest temperature usually occurs in January, though 
it has occurred in February six times in thirty-six years. 

The annual mean temperature for Memphis is 61.6 de- 
grees. Mean by seasons: Winter, 42.5 degrees; spring, 
61.7 degrees; summer, 79.4 degrees; fall, 62.2 degrees. The 
average maximum for March is 61 degrees, and the average 
minimum for that month is 44 degrees. The absolute max- 
imum is 87. Temjieratures as low as 32 degrees are ex- 
ceedingly rare after March 15th, and in April such a tem- 
perature has occurred but once in thirty-six years. In 
October it has not been as low as 32 degrees in the last 
thirty years and has been as high as 92. The lowest tem- 
jiorature on record for November is 16 degrees and the 
liighest 82, the average for the month being 59.3 degi'ees. 
The average for December is the same as for February, 
43.5 degrees, the highest on record being 76 and the low- 
est 2. 

The average date of the last killing frost in spring is 
March 24th, and the average date of the first in autumn 
is October 2Sth, giving 217 days between the first and last 
killing frost. The earliest killing frost on record is Octo- 
ber 2d, and the latest it is known to occur is Novendier 30tli. 

Winter may be said to end by the 23d of February. March 
is characterized by frequent rains, brisk winds and mild 
temperature, and by the last of that month warm weather 
sets in. April is decidedly a pleasant month and by the 
last of May summer temperature usually ])revails. While 
the temperature during June, July and August often reaches 
90 degrees in the warmest ])ortion of the day, the nights 
during those months arc, as a rule, comfortably cool, the 
temperature being on an average about 20 degrees lower 
than the day maximum, and as there is always a light 
breeze both day and night the heat of summer causes very 
little discomfort and it is a well known fact that prostra- 
tions from heat are practicall}' unknown. 

The prevailing winds dining the fall and winter are 
from the northwest, but dining the spring and summer 
they are from the southeast and southwest. These come 
charged with warmth and moisture from the Gulf of Mex- 
ico and give this section a genial and fruitful climate. This 
section is unusually favored in regard to its winds, both 
as to direction and velocity. It has been established that 
the velocity of wind in Tennessee is less than in many 
portions of the United States, and, being out of the path of 
frequent storms, it gives a delightful climate, highly favor- 
able for the development of vegetable and animal life. 



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The Memphis Street Railway 



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The prodigious development of the City of Memphis has been for 
the past ten years a matter of proverb. Outlying fields have blossomed 
overnight with commodious dwellings — new streets have pushed their 
way between. Bigger business buildings and yet bigger buildings have 
been the demand to handle the expanded traffic— higher and higher the 
census of the city has crawled and among all that it takes to make a 
city growing with the growth of Memphis, feeding and fostering the 
city's development, the Memphis Street Railway has for the past years 
played a most important part in the great work of Civic expansion. 

The history of the Memphis Street Railway is the history of 
Memphis as a town and as a city, but few even of the people who live 
here and who catch their daily car from home to office and from office to 
home have any adequate conception of the system— of the vast amount 
of money tied up in its rail, rights of way and rolling stock; its barns 
and construction yards; its poles and wires and dynamos, or dream of 
the financial responsibility involved in its conduct. 

In a nut shell the Memphis Street Railway comprises 109 miles of 
trackage over which it operates daily from one hundred and twenty to 
one hundred and sixty cars. To accomplish this and thereby perform 
the prodigious feat of transporting from seventy thousand to one hun- 
dred and twenty thousand passengers per day, it requires a service of 
approximately eight hundred employees, consisting of office clerks, 
superintendents, firemen, conductors, motormen, ear cleaners, and 
repairers, and other miscellaneous employees. 

The Company has, during the past three years, vastly improved 
and extended its system— its tracks and service now reach every portion 
of the city as well as the residential and industrial suburbs. The adequate 
and short headway service which has been extended into the suburbs puts 
the suburban resident into close touch with the city center and enables 
him to enjoy all the advantages of both city and country. 

The industrial plants, located beyond the city limits, are enabled 
to operate their plants with laborers, clerks and superintendents who 
reside in the city. 

The Company's car equipment in point of excellence is equal to 
that of any street railway in the country and it is being continually added 
to to meet the demands of the growing traffic. 

The policy of the Memphis Street Railway is fully in accord with 
the business interests of Memphis in its effort to develop and expand the 
city and promote its commercial and industrial importance. 



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Parks and Boulevards 



A 



By Hugh H. Huhn 



It wiis in 1000 tliat Mempliis rpalizcd that if public 
parks wore pleasure f,T()un(ls for tlie rich, that they were 
also lireathing spots for the poor. Since that time the 
city lias ac<|uireil [)ark property, which, with the property 
owned before, fxives to the people in Memphis a total of 
l.OSfi acres. Under judicious manaijement and a careful 
distribution of the park appropriation this property has 
been improved, beautified and developed to such an extent 
that it lias quadrupled in value and has fulfilled the mis- 
sion originally contemplated. The better classes have their 
driveways through the larger parks. The poor have their 
playgrounds and their breathing spots also. 

The Board of Park Commissioners representing the city 
was organized under authority of the Legislative Council 
in September, 1900, by the election of L. B. McFarland, 
John R. Godwin and Robert Galloway, commissioners. 
Judge JfcFarland resigned in July, 1906, after over six 
years of valuable service to the city and tp the general 
public. Mr. J. T. Willingham was elected to succeed him, 
and has served since that time. 

The first important work of the Board was to finance 
the park .scheme, and for this purpose it was necessary to 
.secure legislative enactment authoriziuL' the issuance of 
))ark bonds for the purchase of park projierty and for the 
further authority to levy a park tax for the purpose of 
maintaining and improving the property thus acipiired. 
This was accom])lished after much trouble by Moating a 
twenty-year 4-per-cent. bond for $250,000. Overton Park 
was first bought, and 33.'5 acres of beautiful woodland 
property, covered with virgin oaks and forest trees, became 
the property of the city. Riverside Park was next aecpiired, 
and .'ffiT acres were added. The county, becomintr inter- 
ested, donated an adjoining CO acres to the Riverside Park 
projierty. giving to the city a beautiful strip of park prop- 
ertv. which undulates and winds along the high bliill's of 
the Jl 
creek. 

Being thus equipped with the park property, the com- 
missioners have since been developing it as rapidly as its 
means would permit. The city squares or smaller parks 
were the first to be improved. They lie for a greater part 
in congested districts, where the population looks for air. 
'I'liey have been given a means of finding it. 

The big park improvement has been made in Overton 
Park, for here, with the assistance of numerous car lines, 
it was accessable, and the theory was to improve the park 
first which could be easiest reached. It is now one of the 
most beautiful park properties in the South, and is build- 
ing a zoo which already boasts of more animals and acjuatie 
exhiliits than any similar institution south of the Ohio 
river. 

On siiiiinier afternoons, when the city swelters and the 
crowded tenements belch forth their suffocating inmates, 
fragile babies are found enjoying the soft green of the 
plaza about the central pavilion. It becomes at once the 
place of recreation for larger children, the picnic gi-ouiid for 
their elders, the pleasure ground for those who wish exer- 
cise and a relief from city streets, and a driving park for 
others who can afford the pleasure. 

At a recent meeting of the Park Commissioners it was 
decided to appropriate .$3,000 for establishing a gymnasium 
and jiublic playground for children, wlierc, under a careful 
eye, they can be trained in proper exercise and develop 
muscles which would otherwise lay dormant and decay. 

Other parks have been developed, and as soon as street 



car arrangements can be made for facilities to Riverside 
Park, the system will be well under construction. River- 
side boasts of beauties that cannot be found in Overton. 
The driveway along the river bank admits of many pictur- 
esipie views of the Mississipjii river far below. It is like 
the Palisades along the Hudson river. The bluff at this 
point is far above the high water mark, and the view at 
any ]joint along the drive will reach far across the river 
and into the woods of distant Arkansas. This park will in 
time be beautified. The Mem|)liis Street Railway is con- 
teni])lating an extension which will open the way to a fur- 
ther development of this property. 

Forrest Park comes next in importance, being the largest 
of the smaller parks and by far the most beautiful, for it is 
in this park that the famous Forrest statue is located. 
The big bronze figure of the Wizard of the Saddle sits 
astride the horse which carried him bravely through a 
strenuous campaign. This park was susceptible to exten- 
.sive developments, and they have been made with exceed- 
ing discretion and with the view of making it one of the 
most attractive of the smaller park properties. It is con- 
tinually thronged on afternoons and summer nights, and 
even during the colder days of winter hundreds of children 
on roller skates enjoy the smooth walks for their skating. 

Confederate, being a smaller park and occupying the 
bluff, was not an expensive luxury. There was a great 
deal to do, but it was well and (|uickly done, and there is 
never a day in the year that it is not thronged with visit- 
ors, for, like Court S(|uare, it is in the heart of the city, 
and admitting of an unob.structed view of the Mississipjii 
river, it is the rendezvous of strangers with cameras, who 
desire snap shots of interesting jjoints in the (Jueen City 
of the V'alley. Gaston Park was .a generous donation and 
lies in the Southern part of the city. Brinkley Square, 
Astor Scjuare, Auction S(juare and Bickford Park make up 
the <illier smaller jiarks, but each is an adjunct to the health 
of the city, and each offers relief to congested centers, 
where children of the jioor jdayed in the street and where 
they now find healthful lecreation in healthful surround- 
ings. 

The most valuable adjunct to the city park system, 
however, is the "Zoo," for here on Sunday afternoon the 
crowd becomes so great that it is almost imjiossible to 
view the animals. The Zoo has been enlarged, and still 
further additions are to be made in order that this demand 
may be satisfied. All of the jiarks are free to citizens and 
visitors, and all are welcomed. There are no concessions — 
play grounds and ball diamonds, picnic grounds and Zoo 
are free to all alike. 

During the summer band concerts arc given, the band 
alternating from one jiark to another, and these entertain- 
ments are also without cost, exccjjt to the Commission. 

Conn<'cting the two larger jiarks is a ilrivcway eleven 
miles in length. By donation and rurcha.se a speedway 
north of Overton Park was accjuired. This is r>0 feet wide 
and .■!,G00 feet in length, but the parkway jirojier, which 
extends from Overton Park to Riverside Park, varies in 
width from 100 feet to S.'iO feet, and contains more than 
100 acres. 

This makes one of tlie most cmiijilete systems of jiarks 
to be found anywhere in the country, and in view of the 
missioners may be congratulated upon its work, and in 
fact that the system is only seven years of age the Com- 
seven years more the local park system will command 
attention of the country. 



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B. J. SEMMES & CO. 



ESTABLTvSHED 1819 




B.J. SEMMES & CO. ^ 

MHE pure juice of ihe grain completely fermented by 
natural process. Stored in hearts of oak in U. S. 
Bonded Warehouse, aged and stamped under government 
supervision. Pure, rich, mellow as red apples, soft as "One of 
Cleopatra's Nights." fruity and blushing like October grapes 
and matured in a temperature of perennial Summer, Yannissee 
pleases the eye, flatters the palate with pleasurable flavors, and 
fires the fancy with exhilarating and golden dreams. 

1 Doz. Full 
Q uai-ts 

Yjiiinissee Special $1^.00 

Yaiiiiissee Kxtra 14. <K) 

Yaiiiiissee Iteserve ■■■• 18,00 



J. M. GOODBAR WM. M. GOODBAR H. C. YERKES 

Presdent Vice-President Sec'y and Treas. 



GOODBAR &CX3. 



ESTABLISHED 1860 



jNranufacturers and Jobbers of 



Boots and Slioes 



MEMPHIS, TENN. 



IryniE have two large factories of our own with 
l»"l 70,600 square feet of flooring and a capacity 
of 3,000 pairs per day. Our shoes are well and 
honestly made and our stock is the largest south of the 
Ohio river. We guarantee satisfaction. Order di- 
rect from us, or write for a salesman. 



WE CARRY A COMPLETE STOCK 
OF RUBBER BOOTS AND SHOES 



The Southern 
Cotton Oil Co. 



Memphis, 



Tennessee 



Cotton Seed Products 



TennesseeCotton 
Oil Company 

Manufacturers and Refiners 

Cotton Seed Products 

Oil, Cake, Meal, Linters, Ashes 
and Halls 

COOKING OIL 



MILLS AT 



MEMPHIS, JACKSON AND TRENTON, TENN. 

Main Office at Mill, Foot of Jefferson Avenue 

MEMPHIS, TENN. 



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' THE IDEAL INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY ' 

The 
Union Land and Improvement 

Company's 

FACTORY $ITE SUBDIVISION 

ON THE BELT LINE 



nHIS PROPERTY comprises 653 acres of the most beau- 
tiful industrial property which can be had in the vicmity of 

' Memphis. The Union Belt Line passes lengthwise through 

the center of the property, the L. & N. Railroad crosses it and the 
new I. C. Belt Lme is only a few hundred feet distant. The prop- 
erty is so near level that no expense whatever is needed to develop 
any site in it. Establishments that are looking for a location with 
the maximum of advantages will find this property absolutely ideal. 
It is reached directly by the new eastward extension of the Main 
Street car line and is the nearest to the center of the city of any 
large property now open to mdustrial development. 



Union Land and Improvement Co. 

I R. A. SPEED, Pres. 72 MADISON AVE. E. B. LeMASTER, Secy | 



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Members of the American 

Association of Public 

Accountants 

t^^ t^* t^^ 

Reference : 

R. G. Dun & Co., Any 

Bank or Wholesale 

Merchant in 

Memphis 




E.S.ELLIOTT FELLOWS OF TENNESSEE SOCIETY OF PUBurc ACCOUNTANTS. W. A. SMITH 



Residence Tele- 
phone Cumb. 
Main 3929 



§)m Residence Tele- 
K-' phone Cumb. 
vD^ Main 29i5 




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(£ 



PUBLIO/TCCOUNTANTS 

ROOMS 310-31 1-312 MEMPHIS TRUST BUILDING. 

., MEMPHIS, TENN. „ 



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r<v. 



FELLOWS OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS. 



tOMftMtffi 



The Mercantile Bank of Memphis 



MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE 



Capital 
Surplus 



$200,000 
$100,000 



OFFICERS 



C. H. I^AINE, President Jno. W. Schorr, Vice-President E. H. VOEGEII, 2nd Vice-President 

CLAUDE cANDERSON, Cashier. 



DIRECTORS 



A. S. Caldwell 


F. G. Jones 


S. Lundee 


Jno. W. SohoiT 


F. G. Barton 


C. H. Raine 


E. H. Voegeli 


T. B. Turley 


E. E. Wright 


K. A. Speed 


E. W. Porter 


W. M. Hannay 



J. M. Fdwlkes 
S. T. Games 
H. H. Keese 
W. G. Reed 
E. B. LeMaster 



We '^illSholi) Our Appreciation of Your Business by Courteous Treatment and 

Superior Service 



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CHICAGO 



MEMPHIS 



C. L. WILLEY 

FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC 

Hardwood Lumber and Veneer 



Specialties: Mahogany and Quarter Sawn Oak 

MANUFACTURERS OF 

Foreign and Domestic Veneer 



CHICAGO MAIN OFFICE 
1225 SOUTH ROBEY STREET 



MEMPHIS OFFICE 
EVERGREEN AND BELT R. R. 



THE LARGEST VENEER PLANT IN THE WORLD 



WILLIAMSON BR05. 

Investment Bankers 



BUR business has many departments, including life insurance, fire insurance, liability 
1 insurance, surety bonds, etc., but probably the best known branch of the business 

is our Loan Department, which lends money on Improved Memphis City Real Estate 
at lower than the usual rate of interest. Our contracts are very liberal in the terms of 
repayment and are devoid of the usual fine print stipulations that make a man doubt 
whether he is living up to his agreement or not. 

WII^LIAMSON BR05. 

Investtnent Bankers, MempHis Trust Bldg. 



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OUR OWN MANUFACTURE 



4i 



Red Ring'' Brand Portland Cem ent 

In Car or Wagon Load Lots 
AND 

''Red Diamond" Black Lime 



ALSO 



IN CAR 



River Sand and Gravel 'lo'ts 

Union Sand and Material Co. 

Tennessee Trust Bldg. Phones 1049 Memphis, Tenn. 






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Why I Came to Memphis 

I was looking for a growing city, where it was possi- 
ble to get in on the "ground tioor" and come np with 
the place. 

In looking over the 1900 census report Memphis, 
Tenn., showed it had increased nearly 70 per cent.; I 
ininiediately sold out my pro.sperous little business in a 
small town, packed my furniture and moved to Memphis 
without fm-ther ado, and if you want proof that I made 
no mistake, then write any one in this eity and see the 
answer you'll get. 

Now, to the object of this card: If you yom-self, or if 
you kn<^w any one who can excel the majority at any 
trade or occupation, then get on the train and come to 
Memphis quick — befoi'e some one gets the start on you 
— for I'll tell you honestly, candidly and fearlessly that 
if you've got the right kind of stuff in you Memphis is 
the place to develop it, and you almost owe it to poster- 
ity to come to Memjihis where you can luiild up a name, 
then your descendants can look back upon YOU and 
MEMPHIS as the foundation of their greatness. 



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DUKEC. BOWERS 



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FROM ONE WHO KNOWS. 



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Ufotel (ba^oso 



5ncmpl)i5 




^ A modern fire proof hotel with 350 room«, 200 bath 
rooms. European plan, rates $1.50 per day and upward. 
Write us for information desired. 




^ This hotel thoroughly remodeled and refurnished, with 
fire proof annex of 200 rooms, all of which are baths, opened 
to the public March 1st. 1908. European plan; rates $1.50 
per day and upward. Write us for any information desired. 



BUY REAL ESTATE IN 
MEMPHIS THROUGH 

OVERTON & OVERTON 

The confidence of the Memphis public in this firm, is so well established, that it 
enjoys a very large business both in the sale and rental of property. Their list of pro- 
perties for sale is varied, and comprises a large number of splendid investments, including 
mercantile and manufacturing sites, homes, subdivisions, farms, suburban acreage and city 
lots. They have many desirable homes, and can supply the wants of all classes whether 
they be of modest means or wealthy. If interested in Memphis real estate, consultation 
with this firm will yield you good results. Correspondence solicited. 

OVERTON & OVERTON 

128 Court Ave., MEMPHIS 



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J. A. OMBERG, President S. H. BROOKS, Vice-President 

P. S. SMITHWICK, Vice-President C. Q. HARRIS, Cashier 

C. H. CRAIG, Assistant Cashier 



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Capital $500,000 Surplus $500,000 

[ NO. 336 I 

fb The First National Bank J 

p Of MEMPHIS, TENN. <^ 

I United States Depositorv The Oldest Bank in tlie City H 

I ESTABLISHED IN 1564 I 



DIRECTORS 



S. H. BROOKS C. F. FARNSWORTH ROBT. E. LEE JAS. NATHAN JOHN H. SULLIVAN 

bW. I. COLE N. FONTAINE R. M. McLEAN T. K. RIDDICK J. GOLDSMITH y 

J. N. FALLS W. A. GAGE J. MARKS J. A. OMBERG H. M. NEELY ^Jj 

YOUR BUSINESS IS RESPECTFULLY SOLICITED ^^ 

K,SL ^&.^ SLJ 



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A. N. BRADY. Prfsideni 

ROBERT A. SPEED, Vice-Presidenl 

J. T. HARAHAN. Vice-President 

RICHARD REES. Secrelary 

J. W. CLAPP. Tieasurer 

W. M. FLOOK, Aisistant Secretary 

FRANK JONES. Assistant Treasurer 



! Memphis J 

I Consolidated Gas l^ Electric ^ 
j Company I 



12 and 16 Soutti Second Street 



b 



MEMPHIS, TENN. 



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'kJL ^'^ SLJ 



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SOUTH MEMPHIS 



WAS A COTTON FIELD IN 1902 
HAS 31 INDUSTRIES IN 1908 

The Properly of the South Memphis Land Co. Consists of Over 4,000 Acres 

THIS LAND IS TRAVERSED BY 

The Main Line of the Illinois Central Railroad 

The Main Line of the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad 

The Illinois Central Railroad Belt Line 

The Union Railroad Belt Line 

The Louisville and Nashville Railroad Belt Line 

Three Electric Street Car Lines Connect this land with the City of Memphis 
Five -cent car fare with transfers all over Memphis 

Has City Artesian Water Supply 

Has Electric Light Plant 

Streets Are Lighted By Arc Lights 

Has Two Churches and a Day and Night Public School 

Has Well Stocked Stores 

Has a Well Appointed Hotel 

The Land Company's property begins at the corporal limits of Memphis, extends 
South to the Gravity Yards of the Illinois Central Railroad and West to the Mississippi 
River. 

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Sites for Factories or Warehouses can be obtained on reasonable terms. 
Several Thousand People Live in this Suberb of Memphis. 
Beautiful Building Lots for Homes. 



FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION APPLY TO THE 



South Memphis Land Company 

14th Floor Tennessee Trust Building MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE 



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JOHN PEIRCE CO. 

General Constkuction Work 



MAIN OFFICE 
90 WEST ST., NEW YORK CITY 



WESTERN OFFICE 
WESTERN UNION BLDG., CHICAGO, ILL. 

GEO, F. BODWELL, General Western Agent 



GENERAL CONTRACTORS FOR 



THE NEW SHELBY COUNTY COURT HOUSE 



HALE & ROGERS, ARCHITECTS 
NEW YORK CHICAGO 

JOHN GAISFORD 
SUPERVISING ARCHITECT 



COURT HOUSE COMMISSIONERS 
N. C. PERKINS, W. G. ALLEN 
JOHN COLBERT, LEVI dOY 

JOHN T. WALSH 



AMONG THE MOST NOTABLE WORK DONE BY MR. PEIRCE AND THIS COMPANY ARE : 



Postoffices at — 

Cliicago, 111. 
Washington, D. ('. 
Bnffalo, New York 
Brooklyn, New York 
Indianapolis, Indiana 
Milwaukee, Wis., Granite Work 
Cleveland, Ohio, Superstnieture 



Custom House, New York City 

Completion of State Capitol, Albany, New York 

Granite Dry Dock at Portsmouth, N. H. 

New Hall of Records Building, New Y^ork City, costing 

some five million dollars 
Hudson County Court House, N. J., Granite Work 
Interior Marble for Cook County Court House, Chicago, 

111., costing nearly a half million 



V^^jfc.^ ry ^ ^ofc.^ a,^-^;T^;> la^^ 




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WM. D. ROBERTS, Pres. HARRY P. JOHNSON, Vice-Pres. W. W. SIMMONS, Secy-Treas. and Mgr 



Broadway Coal and Ice Company 

H MINERS AND SHIPPERS OF ^ 

i XjE^wis oi^^eeic aojLiLi I 

^ FOR STEAM AND DOMESTIC PURPOSES m 



Manufacturers of Ice 



Mines in Kentucky 
'; Ice Factories in Memphis, Tenn. 




General Offices : 
63 Madison Ave., Memphis, Tenn. 



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^ THE IDEAL INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY 

The 
Union Land and Improvement 

Company's 

FACTORY SITE SUBDIVISION 



ON THE BELT LINE 



D 



HIS PROPERTY comprises 653 acres of the most beau- 
tiful industrial property which can be had in the vicinity of 
Memphis. The Union Belt Line passes lengthwise through 
the center of the property, the L. & N. Railroad crosses it and the 
new I. C. Belt Line is only a few hundred feet distant. The prop- 
erty is so near level that no expense whatever is needed to develop 
any site in it. Establishments that are looking for a location with 
the maximum of advantages will find this property absolutely ideal. 
It is reached directly by the new eastward extension of the Main 
Street car line and is the nearest to the center of the city of any 
large property now open to industrial development. 



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Union Land and Improvement Co. 

R. A. SPEED, Pres. 72 MADISON AVE. E. B. LeMASTER, Secy 



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ESTABLISHED 1857 ^^^^^^^^^^— -_^^.^_ 

INCORPORATED 1908 

B. Lowenstein & Bros. Dry Goods Go. 

Wholesale Only 

The Largest and Oldest Wholesale Dry Goods House 
South of the Ohio River 

Nearly Six Acres of Floor Space Devoted Exclusively to Wholesale Business 

We have always on hand in goods suitable to the trade of 
the bouth and Southwest the largest and best assorted stock 
to be found m the United States. Our prices are guaranteed 
to be as low as t-au be had anywhere. All open orders re- 
(?eive prompt and careful attentioa and are billed at same 
prices as if you were present to make the purchase In 
competing with St. Louis, Chicago and New Yoik we offer 
you larger and better assorted stocks at the same piices and 
can save you largely in freights and in time. 

Dry Goods Merchants -.-^en^ for a copy of our monthly house journal - Co- Operative 

Salesmanship:'' You'll find it interesting. 
A Cordial Invitation is Extended to Merchants While in the Market to Visit Our House 

and Inspect Our Splendid Stocks 




When You Want 



China, Glassware and House 
Turnishing Goods 



1 



Why Not Buy the Best? 



We are exclusive handlers of the famous ALASKA REFRIG= 
ERATORS and ICE BOXES and WHITE MOUNTAIN ICE 
CREAM FREEZERS. We also have the best of American 
French and German Chinas. 

OUR PRICES ARE RIGHT 



The Memphis Queensware Company 



62 South Main Street 



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Capital and Surplus, $2,000,000.00 



STATEMENT OF CONDITION, FEB. 14, 1908 



ASSETS. 

Time loans $4,398,745 09 

Demand loans 299,813 47 

Overcliecks 124,560 88 

Bonds and stocks 495,172 74 

Office building 596,171 47 

Luehrmann Hotel building . 158,462 99 

Cash and sight exchange 2,573,523 74 

$8,646,450 38 
LIABILITIES. 

Capital stock $1,500,000 00 

Surplus 500,000 00 

Undivided Profits 29,225 61 

Fund for taxes 44,371 50 

Title Guaranty contingency fund 31,276 49 

General contingency fund 65,810 07 

Net earnings from January 1, 190S, less expenses paid 54,201 78 

Deposits 6,421,564 93 

, $8,646,450 38 

OFFICERS. 

J. T. FARGASON, President. E. L. RICE, Cashier. 

.JNO. H. WATKINS, Vice-President. L. S. GWYN, Assistant Cashier. 

FRED'K. FOWLER, Vice-President. S. J. SHEPHERD, Trust Officer. 

JAS. H. FISHER, Secretary. G. A. BONE, Auditor. 

DIRECTORS. 

.J. T. Fargason. W. G. Thomas. 

A. D. Gwynne. Frederick Fowler. 

R. B. Snowden. T. B. Turley. 

G. W. Macrae. R. A. Speed. 

O. H. P. Piper. P. P. Van Vleet. 

H. C. Nail. O. C. Armstrong. 

J. T. Harahan. \V. B. Mallory. 

W. E. Love. J. T. Fargason, Jr. 

E. Lowenstein. Jno. H. Watkins. 

R. Brinkley Snowden. T. H. Tutwiler. 

To those who are already customers we extend our appreciative thanks and ask their 
continued patronage and support, and at the same time invite all others to avail themselves 
of the facilities, safety and protection afforded by our institution, placing our best services 
at their disposal. We are thoroughly equipped for the transaction of all business pertaining 
to a modern trust company, and solicit your business, whether large or small, and the same 
care and attention is paid to all. The business of the comiiany is divided into eight 
departments, viz: 

Banking, or Financial Department. Title Guaranty Dei)artment. 

Savings Department. Safe Deposit Departmonl. 

Stock and Bond Department. Real Estate Department. 

Trust Department. Insurance Department. 



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Galloway Coal Co. 



Miners and Distributers of 



The Famous 



is 


Gallov^ay 
Coal 


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OHIS company offers a coal service that is unsurpassed. From its own numerous mines it 
has a supply approaching a million tons per annum, thus assuring an adequate supply for 

its Memphis yards at all times. In order to render assurance doubly sure it stocks its 
numerous Memphis yards in summer with tens of thousands of tons for reserve supply. Its yards, 
located on the tracks at every stragetic point in the city, enable it to make prompt deliveries by 
giving all its teams a short haul and thus increasing the number of loads hauled per team per day. 
Galloway Coal is so well known for quality that it establishes the coal quality in Memphis. 



Yards in Every Part of the City Insuring 
"I Prompt Delivery I 



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ANDERSON-TULLY GO 




HARD- 
WOOD 
LUMBER 



BOX SHOOKS, 



ROTARY CUT VENEER, 



Gum, Siding, Ceiling and Flooring 



Johnson & Fleming 



Engineers and Contractors 



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DEEP WELLS A SPECIALTY. Tenn. Trust BIdg. 

Oifice Phone 1564. Shop Cumb. Phone 2635. Shop Memphis Phone 438 



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MERICAN EAG HOMPANY 



MANUFACTURE 

COTTON AND BURLAP 
BAGS 




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CAPACITY AND MODERN EQUIPMENT INSURE PROMPT SERVICE AND HIGHEST QUALITY 



IMERICAN lAG lOMPANY 

MEMPHIS, T£NN. 



Drink a Bottle 



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Sold at All Bars, Stands and Cafes 

BOTH PHONES 2604 



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Union and Planters Bank and 
Trust Company ' ' 



CAPITAL AND SURPLUS, $1,650,000.00 



OFFICERS. 

8. P. READ, 

President. 

.1. R. PEPPER, 

Vice-President. 

.T.\S. F. HUNTER, 

Vice-President. 

F. F. HILL, 

Vit-e-Prosident. 

.1. I). .McDowell, 

Cashier. 

(ilLMER WINSTOX, 

Asst. Cashier. 

SAJI IIOLLOWAY. 

Alty. and Trust 
UtVicor. 



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DIRECTORS. 

Jolin W. Baih-y 
Harry Colin 
.T. M. D.Kkery 
\V. C. Early 
Xoland Fontaine 
n. T. Fitzhugh 
\V. E. Gage 
W. B. Gates 
.1. M. Goodbar 
Xapoleon Hill 
Frank F. Hill 
.1. F. Hoist 
.Tas. F Hunter 
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.1. .\I. McCorinaik 
I". .\r. Xorflect 
■ 1. I!. Pepper 
sl P. Read 
Theodore Read 
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11. T. W'inkelnian. 



COMMERCIAL DEPARTMENT. 

All Kinds of Regular Banking Business Solicited. 
Savings Department — Open every day during regular banking hours. Saturdays, 6 to S 
p.m. Interest at 3 per cent, per annuin paid and compounded January and .Tuly. $1.00 starts 
an account. 

Safe Deposit Vaults Department — Splendidly constructed chrome steel vaults containing 
many. size boxes for valuable documents of every kind. Rental $5.00 and upward per year. 
INSURANCE AND BOND DEPARTMENT. 
Fire Insurance — Policies issued on all safe risks at regular ilemphis Underwriters' rates, 
same as used by every local company and agency doing business in Memphis. 

Surety Bonds— Make all kinds" of bonds for contractors, public ofTicials and others. 

REAL ESTATE DEPARTMENT. 

Houses and Other Property Sold, Rented, Insured, Taxes Paid and Attended to in Every Way 

for Very Reasonable Fees. 
Trust and Title Guarantee Department — Acts as Administrator, Executor, Guardian and 
Receiver. Funds of estates and other trust funds carefully invested, guajded and settlements 
made legallv and regularly. 

Titles to Real Estate- Fxamined with scrupulous care and guaranteed for reasonable fees. 
Bond and Stock Department — Bonds, Stocks and other securities bought for and sold to 
investors. 



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Memphis Commercial Appeal for Ten 

Years One of Newspaperdom's 

"Winning Dailies" 



By James McCdtcheon — Copyrighted, 1908 



While newspaper and business conditions have made and unmade "Winning Dailies," the Memphis 
Commercial Appeal has steadily held the place of "Winning Daily" of its section of Tennessee in News- 
piperdom's annual "Winning Dalies" number for ten successive yeais. The editor of Newspaperdom, in 
describing what a "Winning Daily" is, says : " ' Winning Dailies' means those newspapers which are 
comprehensive in character and have made unusual successes ; which have been absolutely on the level 
with the public and advertisers ; which believe advertisers are entitled to know all about the circulation they 
buy ; which are particularly strong in family circles — the source from which results really come ; which 
possess 'quality' circulation ; which are admitedly the best and strongest dailies of their respective cities or 
states ; which print the most advertising ; which stand solidly for that which is unquestionably to the best 
interest of the public, regardless of party policies ; which represent all that is clean and desirable in journal- 
ism, and which neither believe in nor practice 'yd'owism.' 

It is unnecessary to say to experienced advertisers that an exclusive, loyal clientage of people of stand. 

/N ing and character forms the most profitable class to reach. That the Commercial Appeal does reach this /V, 
J\ class is demonstrated in the hundreds of letters sent to Newspaperdom from time to time by local and other ICT 

^ advertisers, all expressing in unstinted praise the value always returned by the Commercial Appeal. And ^s, 
when it is understood that the money-earning, money-spending people cannot be reached as a whole ex- 
cept through the Commercial Appeal — cannot be reached even though all other Mennphis papers are 
used — then the discriminating advertisers know what to do. Subscribers to a newspaper of character are 
people of character, and they are the ones most desirable to reach. — From Newspaperdom of Feb., 1908. 




Statement of Circulation for March, 1908 

Average Daily, March, 1908 43,338 

Average Sunday, March, 1 908 63,762 

Average Daily, March. 1 907 42,443 

Average Sunday, March, 1 907 62,8 1 

Advertising shows a total gain in local, general and classified, of 4 1 4 inches. , 

Advertising also shows an excess over the evening paper of 20,052 inches, or 280,728 agate lines. 
95 per cent, of the newspaper readers in Memphis read the Commercial Appeal. 
97 per cent, of its city circulation is delivered into the homes. 

Every Day The Commercial Appeal delivers into Memphis homes 40 per cent, more papers 
paid for than any other Memphis newspaper. 

Every Sunday The Commercial Appeal circulates more than twice as many papers as any other 
Memphis paper prints. 



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DR. A. G. SINCLAIR. Vice.Prcj. 



M. WITTENBERG. 2nd VIce-Pres. 
F. J. BAUM, r • - 




LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 




The 
Continental Savings Bank 



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3 Per Cent. Interest Paid on Deposits 
of individuals and firms subject to check. 
Special Rates on Time Deposits. 



Banking House 72 Madison Avenue 

MEMPHIS 




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NEW VETERINARY HOSPITAI^ AND KENNEL 

For the Accommodation of the Pubhc Having 
Animals to Be Cared for in a Professional 
Manner. Here You Will Find Excellent Quarters 
tor the Treatment and Boarding of Animals; 
Comfortable Kennels, Roomy Stalls, Fine Ventila- 
tion amd Light. 

Harvard Veterinary Hospital and Kennel 

HosDilal Charges: Board. Care, Treatment. 
DIedicine at Cost. 

For Horses and Mules, per day $1.00 

For Cattle, p'r day 75 

Dogs Jtnd Small Anima 8. per day .50 

Examination and Prescriptioi at Office 

$i.nii to 200 

Examination and Certificate for Soundness 5.00 

An adilltionai lee will be i:liarged tor surgical ooera- 
tlon. depending itt amount upon ttte nature and extent 
of the operations, «hich in every case will be made at 
the risit of theowrer. 

KENNEL CHARGES 
Small and medium sized Dogs boarded by 

the month $6.00 

No charue to be less than \ .^0 

Cats and Toy Dosis. per day 25 

Special rates according to the circumstances. Owner 
assumes all rislt in cases of Operation, Accident. Es- 
cape or Death, but at all limes DUE caution will be 
used in the handling of Patients 

DOGS FOR SALE. ANY BREED FURNISHED ON 

ORDER. HORSES AND DOGS CUPPED BY 

ELECTRICITY. 

Dr.Ghas. B.BANKS 

HORSE OPERATING TABLE READY FOR USE VETERINARY PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON 

Cumb, Phone 3761 No, 287 Monroe Ave,, 3 Blocks East o! Main St, Memphis Phone 651 veterinarian to Southern Kennel Club 




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